This is a blog about family secrets
and other things my mother wouldn't want circulating on the internet.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

FACT

Fact: My mother has a first cousin who is also her half-sister. This happened when my grandfather impregnated a woman who then married his brother.

Another Fact: My grandparents' explanation for why this information came to light was that they felt their eldest son and his secret half-sister might end up dating if they thought they were only cousins.

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From the time I learned how to write, my mother would dig through my bedroom to find journals and notes, which she would then read aloud to me in a mocking tone. "Don't write down anything you wouldn't want published on the front page of the newspaper," she said. Over the years I learned not to feel ashamed of the secrets I kept or the feelings I felt, and I realized she was the one who was afraid of the things I wrote, not me. So here it is. Everything they told me not to tell.